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My name is Norah Bolton and I live in Toronto Canada. I now describe myself as a writer who takes pictures with her Iphone - and in previous lives, educator, editor, association executive director, organizational consultant, software vendor - in other words I know a little bit about a lot of things - and like sharing them . . . . .

It all started when...

I was about six years old and my father printed notepaper with Suddaby Girls on the masthead and a board of directors composed of my classmates. My position, as I remember it, was secretary. I was programmed to be involved with not for profits and writing from the beginning. And minutes that I have taken for all kinds of organizations span hours.

Growing up in Kitchener-Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada during the forties and fifties was a great time to live in a mid sized city.  I was on the new high school newspaper staff and later edited the high school yearbook at KW Collegiate in the school’s centennial year - which gave me credentials to join the literary magazine at my college, Trinity at University of Toronto.  In the early sixties I thought I was special when I landed a high school teaching job right out of university. The truth was that anyone with a pulse could get a position with the number of post WW2 teens coming on stream.  And of course I became the yearbook sponsor at Runnymede Collegiate in Toronto.

I loved teaching - at St. Hilda’s and St. Hugh’s School in NYC while my husband was studying at the General Theological Seminary, and subsequently at Cobden District High School and Opeongo High School in Renfrew County and Canterbury High School in Ottawa - and would have stayed with it, but suddenly there were layoffs as the student population diminished. Like many of my colleagues I became an arts administrator - where the expectation at the then Ontario Choral Federation (now Choirs Ontario) was that I edit a quarterly newsletter, teach the membership how to fundraise, tour with a youth choir, produce an annual conference, run workshops and support the board of directors.  After eight years I moved on in the 90's to work with Brian Arnott Associates, a firm that planned arts and cultural facilities.  In the middle of that time I became a software vendor for a speciality product called VisiMap, the first Windows based mind mapping software. I also worked as an independent business trainer and not-for-profit consultant.

The song, "I know a little bit about a lot of things" could be my theme song.  There is always more to learn and I have no intention of stopping now.